Description
A queue of unemployed men in the Labour Exchange. This building on Ormrod Street is still in use by the department of Work and Pensions (2012).
Mass Observation was interested in labour conditions and wages. Unemployment in the Lancashire cotton industry rose from 39,153 to 88,164 between 1937-38.
I was the first person signed up in this very room in Ormrod Street for a Three Day Employ as an extra in the Hayley Mills movie “The Family Way” back in late 1965.
The movie crews came to town early 1966.
Roy Boulting loved my suit so much he appointed me a wife (another Bolton extra) and told us to be in view each of the takes at the fake Travel Agents (facing Bolton Town Hall)
I spent two days with my movie wife and the grip and gaffer crew in the special trailer because Roy wanted us to be warm and fed.
When we filmed the Motocross scenes at Moses Gate we ( Pat my…..er….wife) sat and chat with Hayley,
She was simply awesome.
On the closing of the on site “takes” we were invited to the Commercial Hotel in Victoria Square for a farewell “thank you and get together”.
John Mills bought me a Whiskey and Ginger and my…..er…..wife Pat a Babycham
Roy Boulting the director Married Hayley shortly after and had a family.